August, 1917 
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House ^Garden 
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Cover Design by Charles Livingston Bull 
Frontispiece—Shade and Summer Architecture. 10 
John Russell Pope, Architect 
“The Plough Is Our Hope”. 11 
Betty A. Thornley 
Lilies—The Perfect Flower . 13 
F. F. Rockwell 
The Residence of E. R. Williams, Esq., Pasadena, Cal. 15 
Reginald D. Johnson, Architect 
In An Ally’s Gardens. 16 
The Wisdom of Toads. 18 
Herbert Randall 
Vignette of Twilight . 18 
Harry Kemp 
Farthest from the Trenches. 19 
Collecting Consoles . 20 
Gardner Teal! 
The Twelve Best Flowers for a Garden of Gold. 22 
Grace Tabor 
Cottages, Cabins and Camps. 24 
Inside and Out the Modern Colonial House . 26 
William Brag don 
The Water Garden In the House. 28 
Window Boxes the Seasons Through. 29 
Robert S. Lemmon 
For the Home Beside the Camp Fire. 31 
A Row of New House and Garden Books. 32 
Doorways of Distinctive Character. 33 
Comfort and Convenience on the Motor Trail. 34 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 35 
The Residence of F. W. Yates, Esq., Plainfield, N. J. 38 
Marsh & Gette, Architects 
Eighteenth Century Italian Wall Furniture. 39 
H. D. Eberlein and Abbot McClure 
Starting Plants for Next Spring’s Garden. 42 
D. R. Edson 
COLLINGWOOD FARM . 44 
C. E. Schcrmerhorn, Architect 
The Gardener’s Kalf.ndar. 46 
Arranging Artistic Flower Combinations. 47 
Nancy D. Dunlea 
Pots and Plants for the Indoor Garden. 47 
Ida D. Bennett 
Seen in the Shops. 48 
Butterfxies You May Meet on a Summer Day. 50 
Breaking Into Beekeeping. 51 
Benjamin Wallace Douglass 
Copyright, 1917 , by Conde Mast Sr Co., Inc. 
T HE purpose of fall furnishing 
is to give your life a new back¬ 
ground for the winter. Va¬ 
riety and change are always refresh¬ 
ing, even though they mean nothing 
more than a new arrangement in 
furniture. Most of us, however, 
want to do something more am¬ 
bitious. We want new curtains, or 
new wall papers, a new piece of 
glass here, a new vase there. We 
may even want another piece of fur¬ 
niture or a new rug. 
When we came to make a schedule 
for this September issue—here is 
where you listen to an editorial 
secret!—we set down all the possible 
things that a good housewife would 
want for equipping her house for 
winter. It was a long list, but it if is 
not entirely covered you will have to 
put the blame on the high cost of paper. 
Mrs. Woods and Emily Burbank have written a delightful 
article on what constitutes the Directoire Style. With that the 
issue begins. H. D. Eberlein writes on decorating the stair hall, 
Agnes Foster tells how to buy a rug, another decorator tells how 
a bay window should be curtained. R. L. Hartt describes in his 
own happy style how to buy clocks, 
and Mrs. Lounsbery writes on the 
value of faithful furniture reproduc¬ 
tions. In addition the furnishings for 
an Elizabethan room are pictured, 
new curtaining fabrics are displayed, 
the history and uses of tole ex¬ 
plained, the way to collect Chinese 
lacquer is set forth and some furnish¬ 
ings for a maid's room are suggested. 
If you entertain doubts about employ¬ 
ing a decorator, her work is explained 
in this issue by one who knows. 
With this number the reader will 
receive a larger number of pages de¬ 
voted to her interests—which, by the 
bye, will show you that despite the 
war, business is better than ever. 
In those augmented pages will be 
found material of vital interest to 
gardeners and prospective home build¬ 
ers. Here are houses from New 
York, Washington. North Carolina, Connecticut and California. 
For we are trying to see that all parts of the country are repre¬ 
sented. And the gardener will find plenty of helpful suggestions 
in the articles on sweet peas, evergreens, small green houses, 
Chinese lilies and the always-important war gardens. 
The Elizabethan Room is among a number of 
types to be pictured and explained in the Sep¬ 
tember issue 
AUGUST, 1917 
Contents 
VOL. XXXII, NO. TWO 
